What is a friend and what is friendship for? It’s not as frivolous a question as it might seem on the surface. In fact, many philosophers have spent a great deal of time on the subject throughout the centuries, and so too will we wrestle with it here, for I think it’s one of the …

Why is it you prefer one place over another or might call one place “favorite” out of many places? I’m sure there is a psychological answer, some underlying preferences to which we’re prone yet unaware. Or maybe it’s something more inaccessible and mystical; something we just know through and through, needing no assistance from reason …

Chances are if you’ve been to the Grand Canyon, you’ve visited the much more accessible and popular south rim of the park...but the park is so large in size there is literally another side to it, the north rim, which we visited it this summer.

Soon I’ll be on the open road heading towards the great outdoors and it can’t come quickly enough. The need to ‘get out’ is particularly strong this year and I can’t help but wonder why? Is it just simply that I need a break from the everyday pattern of a workaday life, or that I …

If I can alter a quote by German philosopher Immanuel Kant, “Two things fill my mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...the natural world around me and the inner landscape of human experience within me.